The course helps to understand the forces of globalization and how cross-cultural management and the relationship of a multinational organization to various host countries are becoming more and more critical in today’s global economy.

Course syllabus:
Week 1. How did we get here? Why does it matter? The three stages of globalization, characteristics of the current globalization.
Week 2. The big disappointment: the world did not converge. Cultural, administrative, economic differences.
Week 3. Why we trade and how we do it.
Week 4. Why do we have multinationals? What determines the type of multinational?

Course syllabus:
Week 1. What is globalization?
Week 2. Is globalization new?
Week 3. How do political and social institutions impact national economic development?
Week 4. What is the role of culture?
Week 5. What are the gains from trade?
Week 6. Free trade, free-r trade or managed trade?

Course syllabus:
Week 1. What are foreign currencies and how are exchange rates determined?
Week 2. How should you organize your business abroad?
Week 3. How do you adapt your product or service for the international market?
Week 4. What is it like to work abroad and how do you manage expatriates?
Week 5. How to start, operate and grow a small or entrepreneurial business in the global environment?
Week 6. What is the current state of the global business environment?

Course syllabus:
1. Introduction to international trade.
2. International trade and trade restrictions.
3. International trade and the firm.
4. International trade and the factors of production.
5. Consequences of international trade.
6. Exam.

Course syllabus:
1. Getting to know the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
2. Sustainable Development Plans.
3. Technology, innovation and the SDGs.
4. Good governance and the SDGs.
5. Business and the SDGs.
6. Universities and the SDGs.